# SF Bay Area DopeFest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009 "2004-07-14T02:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/161 "2004-09-06T23:03:01Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Damn, JJ, green looks great on you! And I love your highlights! No, I was the [hot one in green.](http://www.golfco7thmar.com/Dope6.html) ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/162 "2004-09-06T23:08:33Z")
Great pictures, Sandy! We’re home. We spent a very nice (hot) weekend in the city. I’m so glad to have met everyone Saturday night. Everyone was incredibly fun to talk to. We really enjoyed ourselves and look forward to meeting up with all the Bay Area Dopers again sometime soon. I got to meet just about everyone, but had some great conversations with **Voyager, ageless6** and his SO, **SpoilerVirgin, Sassy, Ghanima** (and Plus One) 😉 , **Bippy, Miller, Troy McClure SF, Seadiver, sturmhauke** and **available light, Lezlers, and SolGrundy**. And I’m sure I chatted with other folks, but the vodka martinis might have gotten the better of my memory. I’m really glad everyone enjoyed themselves, we most certainly did. See y’all next time. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/163 "2004-09-07T14:43:39Z")
Another big thank you to **Psycat90** and **Demo** what a cool lot of chaps (incl. women and men) the SF Dopers are. In all the pics I’m talking to **SpoilerVirgin** I did talk to everyone else as well, honest. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/164 "2004-09-07T15:47:21Z")
Hey you guys! Thanks to everyone who made it out. It was excellent to meet you all. As always, I leave these things regretting I didn’t get to talk to everyone as much as I would have liked but still stoked to have at least connected with you all a little bit. Sorry Buzz 9 was so freaking hot! Hope we can do this again soon! ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/165 "2004-09-07T16:09:38Z")
I had a fantastic time, thanks so much **demo** and **psy** for organizing!!! I tried to talk to everyone, and nearly did, didn’t get to chat with **sturmhauke** and **available light** so much, but maybe next time. I really enjoyed the conversation and the food was pretty good too. I liked the strategy of starting everyone out with garlic breath so we could just skip to unabashed crassness. “Plus one” had a good time too, despite having no idea what we were talking about half the time. Hey, in those pictures you can see me get drunker! The more squinched up my left eye is, the drunker I am. Cool! P.S. I was the not-as-hot-one in green. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/166 "2004-09-07T20:11:09Z")
Thanks to everyone who came! I had a great time, and my pants have now fully recovered ;). **Demo** and **psycat** , it was really nice to see you again and thanks for helping get everything set up. **Bippy** , I had fun listening to your accent and riding in your really cool convertible. **SandyHook** , you did a good job with the pictures – every time I looked up, there was a flashbulb in my face. I look forward to seeing all of you again soon, and maybe even being able to remember more of your names. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/167 "2004-09-07T20:47:06Z")
That reminds me. I kept trying to place **Bippy’s** accent, but didn’t get a chance to talk to him long enough to actually ask. Lemme guess… Swahili? I’m not very good at this… ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/168 "2004-09-07T22:40:45Z")
Don’t be silly, I don’t have an accent, it is all you Americans that have accents 😉 (OK I have a home counties accent, with a smattering of Lancastrian phraises) Any of you chaps interested in getting out to SF clubs/events on the occasional weekend? I notice the San Francisco World Music Festival is coming up soon. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/169 "2004-09-07T23:43:35Z")
Shoot, I asked **Bippy** a couple of times where his accent was from! But that’s because I’m deaf (not really, but it seems like it sometimes). My memory also sucks, apparently. You’re from Wales, **Bippy**? Well, wherever you’re from, it was delightful to listen to! Thanks for the pictures **SandyHook** , I’m glad someone was on the ball, although most of the pictures I’m in consist of me bending forward and looking mean. Believe it or not, that’s my interested face. I’m not mean unless provoked. 😃 And I’m totally down to get to SF clubs and events on the occasional weekend! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/170 "2004-09-08T04:16:21Z")
I’d be interested in attending more events in San Francisco. I don’t always take advantage of all the things the city has to offer. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/171 "2004-09-08T04:27:08Z")
Demo and I would definitely be in for drinks (or dinner, shows, whatever) in the city. We’d probably not make it down more than once a month or so, and the next few are going to be tight with the holidays coming up, but we’ll sure try. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/172 "2004-09-08T07:03:54Z")
I too would be up for meeting like-minded internet people in a safe and fun setting in San Francisco for leisure activities and good times. In theory, at least. For now, I’m an indentured servant to a multinational entertainment consortium, and they own in addition to my soul, all of my free time. I got all kinds of grief just for taking off to go to the DopeFest (but it was _totally_ worth it). Still, I am always available to stand and look goofy among [hot women](http://www.golfco7thmar.com/Dope13.html). ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/173 "2004-09-08T07:19:28Z")
I’m always down to hang out in SF. BTW, how many of you SF Dopers have LJs as well? I have the same name there. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/174 "2004-09-08T07:41:10Z")
I’m not much for the club scene, but I’m game for any other sort of activity. I have truly shameful amounts of free time, so I should be able to show for just about anything, anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/175 "2004-09-08T20:28:48Z")
> [@lezlers](#): > > My memory also sucks, apparently. You’re from Wales, **Bippy**? ??? Whatever gave you the idea I was from Wales boy-o. I’m from Slough which is near London. Does this event interest anyone? Kitten on the Keys is a lounge style pianist with humour and wit whom I’ve seen a couple of times at “Naughty Santa’s Xmas Bazaar” and is very entertaining. The others acts seem to be alternative rock bands. Unfortunately the show is on Wednesday for those who have to go to work on Thursday. WEDNESDAY sept 29 9pm At StudioZ tv 314 11th st at folsom cost is $5 for ages 21+ 9:45 [www.silver-needle.com](http://www.silver-needle.com) 10:30 [www.midwaymidway.com](http://www.midwaymidway.com) 11:15 kitten on the keys [http://suzanneramsey.net/](http://suzanneramsey.net/) 12:15am drag rock superstars [www.lipstickconspiracy.com](http://www.lipstickconspiracy.com) ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/176 "2004-09-08T21:53:35Z")
I’d like to add my thanks to **demo** and **psycat** for setting this up. Another SF Fest, make it a yearly August event perhaps, next year would be great. It was fun meeting all of you. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/177 "2004-09-08T21:54:23Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Kitten on the Keys is a lounge style pianist with humour and wit whom I’ve seen a couple of times at “Naughty Santa’s Xmas Bazaar” and is very entertaining. I’ll keep this in mind… I’ve enjoyed Kitten’s _Grandma Sells My Panties on eBay_ from the SF Weekly’s best of local music CD. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/178 "2004-09-22T17:10:44Z")
Anyone going to the Folsom Street fair this weekend? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/179 "2004-09-23T20:25:45Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Anyone going to the Folsom Street fair this weekend? I might check it out for a few hours. I went last year and had a great time. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009/180 "2004-09-23T20:34:16Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Anyone going to the Folsom Street fair this weekend? I was just going to ask that too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-bay-area-dopefest/255009.md?page=10)